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The personality theories of H.J. Eysenck and J.A. Gray: a comparative review
Gerald Matthews,Kirby Gilliland +1 more
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A review of the evidence relating to these theories provided by studies of c.n.s. and a.m. psychophysiology, subjective affect, conditioning and attention and performance can be found in this article.About:
This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 1999-03-12. It has received 441 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biological basis of personality & Extraversion and introversion.read more
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Measures of emotion: A review
TL;DR: There is no “gold standard” measure of emotional responding, and experiential, physiological, and behavioural measures are all relevant to understanding emotion and cannot be assumed to be interchangeable.
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Personality and Subjective Well-Being
E Richard,Ed Diener +1 more
TL;DR: The heritability of subjective well-being is discussed in this article, which is defined as the portion of subjective happiness that is due to genetic differences between individuals, and it is found that personality can to some degree change over time, and with it, levels of subjective wellbeing can change.
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Refining the relationship between personality and subjective well-being.
TL;DR: Analysis of individual measures of personality and categories of SWB shows that different personality and SWB scales can be substantively different and that the relationship between the two is typically much larger than previous meta-analyses have indicated.
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The Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire (SPSRQ) as a measure of Gray's anxiety and impulsivity dimensions.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a set of studies that illustrate the main psychometrical characteristics of the sensitivity to punishment and sensitivity to reward questionnaire (SPSRQ) and the two scales of the questionnaire were developed by writing items to assess BIS and BAS functioning.
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Reinforcement sensitivity theory and personality.
TL;DR: The value of Gray's general approach to building behavioural theories on the bases of both the conceptual nervous system and the real nervous system is validated in personality, which has long been thought a philosophical mystery rather than a standard problem to be tackled by scientific method.
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Précis of The Neuropsychology of Anxiety: An Enquiry into the Functions of the Septo-Hippocampal System..
TL;DR: It is proposed that these drugs reduce anxiety by impairing the functioning of a widespread neural system including the septo-hippocampal system (SHS), the Papez circuit, the prefrontal cortex, and ascending monoaminergic and cholinergic pathways which innervate these forebrain structures.
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Personality and Assessment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the acquired meaning of stimuli and on the situation as perceived, viewing the individual as a cognitive-affective being who construes, interprets, and transforms the stimulus in a dynamic reciprocal interaction with the social world.
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The Biological Basis of Personality
TL;DR: The biological basis of personality, The biological basis for personality, and the role of language in the development of personality.
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Influence of extraversion and neuroticism on subjective well-being: happy and unhappy people.
Paul T. Costa,Robert R. McCrae +1 more
TL;DR: A model of individual differences in happiness is presented, and the separate and complementary roles of trait and adaptation-level theories in explaining happiness are discussed.
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